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A multiple-day exhibition and conference event organised by Xeikon

Xeikon is a leading provider of digital printing solutions, supplying business professionals around the world with their ideal technology. We design, build and deliver complete solutions for labels & packaging, document & commercial, and folding carton.

Xeikon Café is our way to connect with customers, partners, packaging converters and print service providers. Our intent is to provide an informal knowledge exchange platform covering the different aspects of digital print production while cutting through the information overload. Through demonstrations, presentations, workshops and discussions, participants receive first-hand, actionable information and advice on industry innovations and trends. In this way, we offer the participants and speakers plenty of opportunity for networking and business development.

The 2019 edition will offer a strong conference program with a focus on key innovations, technical aspects, and business education.

Who?

Xeikon Café is entirely dedicated to printing solutions for labels and packaging. We will target +700 printers, converters and suppliers worldwide and across the several served industries (pharmaceutical, food & drinks, health & beauty, do-it-yourself, etc.). We will also invite some dedicated brand owners and design agencies to give you first-hand, actionable information and advice on industry innovations and trends.

Aura partners

The 5th edition of Xeikon Café Europe will feature leading industry partners demonstrating end-to-end solutions and participating
in conference sessions designed to inspire and educate.

A B Graphic International is a market leader in fully modular digital converting, inspection rewinding and turret rewinding. In addition, we offer comprehensive technical after-sales support. We also have extensive experience in manufacturing machines for specialist applications, such as RFID insertion, laser die cutting, booklet label machines and 100% camera inspection systems. With 3 manufacturing sites and 5 wholly owned companies in Europe, the USA and Latin America, we also have an experienced team of distributors worldwide. Now in our 65th year, we are constantly investing in and developing technology to keep at the forefront of the labelling and packaging equipment market.

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. We are one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. For over 35 years, our products have been transforming industries, starting with the print industry (PostScript and the 1980s “desktop publishing revolution”). Adobe empowers people to create and transforms how businesses compete. Creative professionals, marketers, knowledge workers, students, application developers, enterprises and consumers use Adobe products to create, manage, deliver, measure, optimize and engage with compelling content and experiences across print and digital media.

Avery Dennison (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and manufacturing company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. The company & products, which are used in nearly every major industry, include pressure-sensitive materials for labels and graphic applications; tapes and other bonding solutions for industrial, medical and retail applications; tags, labels and embellishments for apparel; and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions serving retail apparel and other markets. Headquartered in Glendale, California, the company employs approximately 30,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2017 were $6.6 billion.

With years of dedicated technical and market development, Brotech has become the market leader in the section of label finishing & converting, and quality inspection for narrow web printing market. Brotech's innovative fully modular designed unit enables label printers to design their own systems for finishing and converting applications! Brotech's systems are designed not only for normal pressure sensitive labels, but also for EAS, RFID, IML, tickets and tags, and new solutions for booklet labels.
Brotech has become one of the leading digital finishing system suppliers in the world, developed full line of digital finishing systems which are dedicated for digitally printed labels.

Since 1970 CARTES has been producing labels machines. CARTES has affirmed its success in 88 countries where more than 4,000 machines are installed and recognized for their quality, mechanical strength, precision and high production speed. We constantly aim to find innovative technical solutions for the reels label market. CARTES offers the widest range of label machines with hot stamping, silk-screen printing, flexo printing / varnishing, flat die-cutting, semi-rotary die-cutting, embossing units and with the exclusive LASER technology for die cutting and converting. CARTES first has developed and commercialized the LASER technology applied to self-adhesive label die- cutting. Today, the CARTES LASER technology represents a confirmed success worldwide, not only for the level achieved but also because the Laser converting unit can be combined with hot stamping, silk-screen printing, flexo varnishing, flat die-cutting, semi-rotary die-cutting and embossing.

Cerm is the robust yet affordable Business Management software for narrow web printers, scalable to any size company. Being industry specific and with renowned customers all over the world, Cerm has been a Xeikon Partner for many years. Taste the difference. Seeing is believing!

Flint Group is dedicated to serving the global printing and packaging industry. The company develops, manufactures and markets an extensive portfolio of printing consumables and printing equipment, including:
a vast range of conventional and energy curable inks and coatings for most offset, flexographic and gravure applications; pressroom chemicals, printing blankets and sleeves for offset printing; photopolymer printing plates and sleeves, plate-making equipment and flexographic sleeve systems; pigments and additives for use in inks and other colourant applications; Flint Group also designs, develops and delivers web-fed digital colour presses for labels and packaging applications, document printing, as well as commercial printing as well as platemaking equipment for the newspaper industry and computer-to-plate (CtP) solutions for the commercial printing market; With a strong customer focus, unmatched service and support, and superior products, Flint Group strives to provide exceptional value, consistent quality and continuous innovation to customers around the world. Headquartered in Luxembourg, Flint Group employs some 8200 people. Revenues for 2017 were € 2.2 billion. On a worldwide basis, the company is the number one or number two supplier in every major market segment it serves.

Flint Group is dedicated to serving the global printing and packaging industry. The company develops, manufactures and markets an extensive portfolio of printing consumables and printing equipment, including: a vast range of conventional and energy curable inks and coatings for most offset, flexographic and gravure applications; pressroom chemicals, printing blankets and sleeves for offset printing; photopolymer printing plates and sleeves, plate-making equipment and flexographic sleeve systems; pigments and additives for use in inks and other colourant applications; Flint Group also designs, develops and delivers web-fed digital colour presses for labels and packaging applications, document printing, as well as commercial printing as well as platemaking equipment for the newspaper industry and computer-to-plate (CtP) solutions for the commercial printing market; With a strong customer focus, unmatched service and support, and superior products, Flint Group strives to provide exceptional value, consistent quality and continuous innovation to customers around the world. Headquartered in Luxembourg, Flint Group employs some 8200 people. Revenues for 2017 were euro; 2.2 billion. On a worldwide basis, the company is the number one or number two supplier in every major market segment it serves. For more information, please visit www.flintgrp.com

Grafisk Maskinfabrik, commonly known as GM, is a family-owned company, built on the traditional values of Danish design and solid craftsmanship with a backbone of 43 years of experience in providing solutions for customers in the label industry worldwide. We were first in the market to show new innovative solutions like inline finishing, ultra-compact finishing and finishing for new markets like flexible printed solar-cells. The company is firmly grounded by knowledge and insight of the graphic business and continuously works towards the goal of 'Making Converting Easy'.
GM provides advanced solutions for the self-adhesive label converting and finishing industry. We deliver a vast array of machines including complete automated converting lines, hot foil stamping, screen printing, die cutters, laser die cutters, slitter-rewinders, roll lifts, sheeters and core cutters. Our core product and flagship is the DC350, a converting line with a vast number of options and can run either inline or offline with your press of choice.

Grafotronic delivers modular based machines for the web finishing industry.
Grafotronic is a worldwide supplier with over 700 installations in more than 50 countries. Together with our international network of distributors we offer service and sales support on a worldwide basis.
Thanks to our all new state-of-the-art’s factory in Warsaw, Poland, with 2000 m² production area we can assemble and deliver our newest modular design machines within weeks from receiving an order. With the company's profile we can quickly assemble and deliver faster than ever.
Grafotronic machines are modular and:
• future safe,
• cost efficient,
• productive,
• operator friendly, and
• have short delivery times.
Grafotronic - the future of finishing machines

With offices in Belgium, Germany, Italy and the US plus a global partner network, HYBRID Software is a software development company focused on innovative productivity tools for the graphic arts industry. HYBRID Software's CLOUDFLOW workflow, PACKZ editor and integration products offer a unique set of advantages that include native PDF workflows, vendor-independent solutions based on industry standards, scalable technology and low cost of ownership. These products are used by hundreds of customers worldwide in all areas of pre-press and print, including labels and packaging, folding cartons, corrugated, wide format and digital printing.

Jindal Films is a global leader in the development and manufacture of specialty biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP or OPP) films. The Jindal Films product range includes multi-layer clear, white opaque and metalized films along with water-based coated films. While Jindal Films products are deployed in various end-use applications, the main market segments for its products are Flexible Packaging and Labeling. Jindal Films has affiliated production plants in Europe (Virton, Belgium; Kerkrade, The Netherlands; and Brindisi, Italy), and in the United States (LaGrange, Georgia and Shawnee, Oklahoma). The company and its affiliates have sales offices to support customer needs in countries around the world, including North America, Europe and Asia. In 2018, B.C. Jindal Group acquired Treofan Germany GmbH.

Kotkamills is a responsible partner that delivers renewable products and high-quality performance to its customers; processes via product innovations created from Nordic wood, a renewable raw material. With modern, on-the-go lifestyles, consumer demand for coffee, food and drinks to-go continues to grow all over the world. Food service packaging plays an important part in this convenience lifestyle, as more and more disposable cups and containers are needed. We have taken the mission to make these solutions as sustainable as possible. Today, too few disposables are recycled, even though they could be. That is why we have been committed to producing easily recyclable, on-machine coated barrier boards for food service industry. Kotkamills offers the food service industry the AEGLE range of Folding Boxboards for folding carton packaging, including water-based dispersion coated Barrier Board and the ISLA Boards for the production of plastic-free, biodegradable and easily recyclable paper cups.All our products, including barrier products, are recyclable with normal paper and board waste.

Lamina System AB is a world leading supplier of sheet to sheet laminating/mounting and gluing machines. Lamina is famous worldwide for its innovative approach to all of its product range, for building compact and operator friendly machines.

Label Traxx is an end-to-end print management software system designed and built specifically for the label and packaging industry. The company continues to release cutting-edge software to help label converters streamline their operations and increase profitability. Label Traxx has offices in the USA and UK.

Lake Image Systems is a world leader in variable data integrity and print quality inspection for the packaging, labels, and commercial print industries. By reading and processing the variable data now commonplace on many printed items, our solutions inspect, verify, track and report on billions of documents, labels, plastic cards and packages daily using codes such as OCR, barcodes, 2D codes, QR codes and many more to detect print errors, identify & track items, secure products and protect brands and consumers. With over 4,000 systems worldwide we automate print inspection processes, in order to increase throughput and productivity, minimize waste and mitigate business risks for our clients.

Lemorau is a manufacturer of finishing machines for the world-wide label industry, with more than 30 years of experience. Lemorau is now exporting to 48 countries around the world and we are well known for the flexibility of customising the machines according to customers needs.

Meech has a worldwide reputation in the development of electrostatic control equipment, web cleaning systems and compressed air technology. With a network of distributors spanning the globe Meech offer unparalleled technical application knowledge and customer service.
Meech will showcase its non-contact web cleaner CyClean™ at the Xeikon Café. CyClean™ is capable of removing contamination to 0.5 micron and incorporates fluid dynamic principles to deliver higher levels of cleanliness for printing applications. Also on show will be the Hyperion 929IPS and 924IPS static elimination bars with integrated 24V power supply and powerful ionisation for a wide range of industrial applications.

Founded in 1982, the MGI Group is a public company registred on the Euronext/Alternext Stock Exchange (ALMDG), with offices around the world. The MGI Group is a global digital printing technology leader composed of MGI Digital Technology, headquartered in Paris (Fresnes), France, KÖRA-PACKMAT, located in Villingendorf, Germany and CERADROP, located in Limoges, France.
As a world leader in digital printing, finishing & embellishment equipments, MGI Digital Technology provides groundbreaking and value-added solutions for the graphic, packaging & labelling industries.
The MGI line of products is backed by reliable and proven technologies designed to meet customers’ high expectations.
MGI’s digital printing finishing & embellishment solutions are placed in a wide range of industries, including commercial printers, label printers, packaging firms, corrugate packaging companies, in-plant printers, newspaper printers, photo printers/labs, plastic card manufacturers, government agencies and book printers.
Looking forward to new dawn breaking over the printing industry, MGI's strategy consists in launching solutions that remain one step ahead of the curve, keeping the same company values that has lead to its success.

Michelman is a global developer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly advanced materials for industry, offering solutions for the coatings, printing & packaging and industrial manufacturing markets. The company is well-known as an innovator in the development of barrier and functional coatings, as well as digital printing press primers that are used in the production of consumer and industrial packaging and paper products, labels, and commercially printed materials. Michelman serves its customers with production facilities in North America, Europe and Asia, product development and technical service centers in several major global markets, and a worldwide team of highly trained business development personnel.

Rietstack is a company set up in Amsterdam in the Netherlands especially for the manufacture of machinery for the printing industry. In their previous employment our staff led by Mr Jerry Riet has successfully designed and built add on units for use by press manufacturers as original equipment. These machines are primarily for increasing production and efficiency in the narrow web and label manufacturing sector and although some of our machines are used off-line almost all of the processing units we manufacture can be integrated into the main machine as an addition without any reduction in production speed.
Our product range is made up of a number of different machines each comprising of single or multiple processes. The processes that can be integrated include sheeting, stacking, counting, card-board feeders, boxing, gluing, pad maker with hot melt gluing, die-cutting and stacking of injection in-mould labels, transport tables and high pile stackers.
Since a few years we produce also the IRS stand-alone converting machine which is equipped as Slitter Rewinder for the production of label stacks in various materials like IML, wet label, paper, carton, film etc. from a pre-printed reel. Next to that the IRS is designed to produce small reels from a pre-printed mother reel by means of longitudinal cutting of self-adhesives, foil- and paper materials.
Our machines are robust in construction and yet incorporate the most up to date electronics and pneumatic technology to reduce cycle times to a minimum and ensure reliability.
We are a strongly growing company and supplies our machines for the printing industry to countries worldwide.

SEI Laser, the worldwide leader of Italian laser technology, design and manufacture integrated solutions specific to applications based on laser technology. SEI Laser’s wide range of products and laser applications are the right professional solutions to the needs of the most demanding customers in areas such as: labelling, folding carton, paper commercial, flexible packaging, metal cut processing, lighting, visual communication, interior decoration, textile.
Over 30 years of experience and entrepreneurial spirit have made SEI Laser one of the most dynamic and innovative companies in the world of laser technology.

Xeikon Prepress has a long lasting reputation of manufacturing high quality Computer to Plate equipment. For the flexographic market, Xeikon Prepress offers digital platemaking systems under the ThermoFlexX brand name. ThermoFlexX imagers provide high-resolution plate exposure combined with unique plate handling and unmatched productivity. The basysPrint CtCP systems offer flexibility combined with outstanding quality using conventional offset plates resulting in a very attractive ROI for commercial printers. The newspapers CtP products, manufactured and designed under an exclusive OEM agreement for Agfa Graphics, and commercialized under the names Polaris and Advantage, are considered as the reference in the newspaper industry.

The Treofan Group is a leading global manufacturer of biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films for packaging, labels and technical applications. Treofan has over 40 years of experience in the BOPP market and is a supplier of high-quality BOPP products and tailor-made, intelligent solutions – in over 90 countries.
Treofan has positioned itself as a worldwide premium provider with profound film expertise. Numerous patents prove the company’s innovative strength. Treofan delivers solutions that are globally applicable, easy to handle, market differentiated and at the same time economical. In a network with partners, Treofan develops application oriented solutions and new service concepts while providing first-class technical service to customers all over the world.
Treofan is THE expert for in mould labelling (IML), positioned to assist brand manufacturers and their converters all over the world. Treofan develops and offers state-of-the-art fi lm solutions for IML, wrap around labelling (WAL), and self-adhesive labelling (SAL) applications. What distinguishes us: Our unrivalled breadth of experience in the IML-IM segment and our deep understanding of the overall process chain. In 2018, Treofan Germany GmbH was acquired by B.C. Jindal Group.

Founded in 1983 Melbourne Australia, Tronics has grown to a very profitable organization; with 110 staff worldwide with sales and services offices throughout Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide & Perth) New Zealand, United States, Brazil Indonesia and Malaysia. Tronics has a comprehensive manufacturing facility in Melbourne, which supplies labeling equipment for both the domestic and international market that is CE/UL compliant: within house design including electronics, software and mechanical, Tronics manufactures priming labeling, secondary labeling (LPA), leak detectors, news liner applicators and heat transfer equipment. Tronics with over twenty years of experience in the Heat Transfer industry have develop together with Xeikon, a digital label solution for the Heat Transfer industry, this exiting development has rekindle a unique decorative solution that has been in decline for many years. The greatest single problem facing any manufacture that wanted to invest in Heat Transfer was access to labels. With only a handful of companies that the expertise to manufacture labels worldwide and the technology was declining. Now with the invent of digital heat transfer labels the technology is available to any company that wants to invest in this unique green labeling solution.

UPM Raflatac is labeling a smarter future by developing innovative and sustainable labeling solutions complemented with world-class service. As one of the world’s leading producers of self-adhesive label materials, we supply high-quality paper and film label stock for consumer product and industrial labeling through a global network of factories, distribution terminals and sales offices. We employ around 3,000 people and made sales of EUR 1.4 billion (USD 1.5 billion) in 2016. UPM Raflatac is part of UPM – The Biofore Company. Find out more at www.upmraflatac.com.

VIGC is the Flemish Innovation Center for Graphic Communication, the knowledge center for the graphic arts industry in Belgium and the Netherlands, located in Turnhout (Belgium). As one of the key role players in the industry we provide leadership and excellence in innovation for our members the PSP’s, our strategic partners and in fact the entire industry. We do this through the organization of a wide variety of events, independent training sessions on technical and business related topics and by providing consulting activities based on unbiased information. As a VIGC member you’ll receive our newsletter, but we also provide the possibility for companies and organizations to ask questions at our ‘Infodesk’ that we independently investigate, resolve and/or for which we reference to other technology investigation centers or partners in the field. Most of our activities are in Dutch. However consulting activities and standard training sessions on e.g. online print, PDF, color, paper or market figures and trends can be given in English or other languages on request. For more information, please contact Jos Steutelings at jos.steutelings@vigc.be or +32 476 76 08 94. Please feel free to visit us at www.vigc.be.

Headquartered in Japan, with production lines in Japan and in the United States, YUPO has been offering high-quality synthetic papers for almost 50 years. A global leader in its market, YUPO is always creating new products to follow customer demands and market trends. The synthetic papers manufactured by YUPO combine the best print quality of premium papers with the high durability and strength of plastic films, adding an unrivalled smooth surface. The wide range of synthetic papers, produced by YUPO are used for many different applications: Self-adhesive face stock, In-Mold Labels, tags, adhesion film without glue, material for commercial print applications such as maps, catalogues, menus, manuals and more.YUPO Europe GmbH was established in Düsseldorf in October 2000. The German company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the YUPO Corporation and, with comprehensive marketing and customer services, a pivotal business partner serving the markets in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Russia.

When?

The fifth edition of our Xeikon Café will take place from Tuesday 26 to Thursday 28 March 2019.

Where?

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Xeikon’s Lier facilityDuwijckstraat 172500 LierAntwerp, Belgium

Visa application

Some visitors will have to apply for a short stay visa for their trip to Belgium. For this, you can make use of the motivation included below. Please fill in the form and e-mail it to leen.croymans@flintgrp.com. You will then receive a signed and approved version that you can send to the relevant authorities.

Applications can be submitted to the Belgian embassy or consulate which is competent for your country of residence or to the embassy of another Schengen country Belgium has concluded a representation agreement with. More information can be found here.